If you're just getting into Instagram, the social shoot-and-filter app that was hit Android last week and sold to Facebook yesterday, then you might want appreciate a primer on each filter's quirks strengths, rather than flip through all of them with every shot. The Atlantic offers just such a profile.

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Mark Zuckerberg all but promised to keep Instagram available without a mandatory Facebook integration, but Megan Garber at The Atlantic is probably right: you'll be seeing Instagram in Facebook soon enough. So her short-hand guide to the Instagram filters and when they work best is worth not only reading, but sending on to your newest lo-fi-filtering friends and relatives. A few of her picks:

Lomo-fiEffect: Dreamy, ever-so-slightly blurry, with saturated yellows and greensUse for: Food pictures — those cookies you just baked, that steak you just grilled, etc.